Copying A Bootable Cf To Another One With Knoppix

Hey guys i posted yesterday the same question but in case iam useing knoppix but now i decided to do it useing linux but when i searched for linux.iso i found ubuntu dunno what is it but is it same as linux on copying steps i mean the dd order? Please reply

Hi guys,

I'm new to this forum and linux too.
I thought of installing a lightweight distro of linux and did some research on the net where I found people recommending Puppy Linux. Plus it is (theoretically speaking) possible to run it from a USB (flash) drive which I decided to try out but it seems like it's not that simple a task as a lot of people (all over the internet) say it is.

What I tried so far is this: installing it into a thumb drive using unetbootin follwing a youtube tutorial (which basically showed how to download an iso of puppy, use unetbootin to make the thumbdrive bootable and install puppy on it). It didn't work. The USB wasn't recognized as a bootable device. I know for sure it can be booted from it since I tried ubuntu from the same USB and the same Laptop (which is able to boot from USB).

I thought that something with the Flash Drive not OK so I tried to use a windows installer to install puppy like other windows programms but this didn't work either. This time Puppy was recognized because there was an option to boot either Puppy or Windows 7 but when I chose to boot from Puppy nothing happens just a screen flash, some letters in the top left corner saying something like NTSC or NTSF (I can't read it properly because it goes away too fast) then after the screen flash the whole thing again (boot from win 7 or Puppy I choose Puppy again the flash... basically a loop).

Any ideas what I'm doing wron or what the problem is?

Thank You for any replies.

Im experimenting. I loaded knoppix, my older version on cd used to work great but I suppose the 2005 cd just met its end of life. The machine Im on boots fine to Windows I just want to play around with Knoppix.

Anyway, I downloaded burned and loaded KNoppix 7.4. Im on it as I type.

pix@Microknoppix:/dev$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

240 0 10608000 cloop0
252 0 2115392 zram0
8 0 244198584 sda
8 1 1536000 sda1
8 2 233490432 sda2
8 3 9170944 sda3
11 0 4182848 sr0


and

knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x17807de0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 3074047 1536000 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 3074048 470054911 233490432 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 470054912 488396799 9170944 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS

That crusty old version of KNoppix .. I think 5.x era showed a hda1 or sda1 on the desktop. I could just navigate that through the windows files.

So I guess Im asking... how do I get the harddrive to show up in the gui .. or how do I unhide the drives ?

Hey Newbie Here

Have A Acer C720 Chomebook With An Upgraded SSD 128GB, Run Ubuntu Threw Cruton But Dont Know To Much

Have Legacy Boot And Really Into Messing Around

Looking For A Bootable Virtual Machine OS, What I Mean Is A Small Operating System With Enough To Support Hardware And Qemu Or Better Installation, Size Dose'nt Matter And Hopefully Something Already Put Together But I Can Understand Instructons

I Once Found A Tinycore Iso That Was Bootable And Booted Straight Into A Partition-er - A Bootable Partition-er And All Around Bootable Disk Management Os..... I Love The Idea Of Bootable Software, It Was Only Like 40+ Megs

Ive Looked All Around Google And Couldent Find Anything

Tried To Make one Myself And Cant Understand How To Put Together Something Like That

Even Just A Terminal That Boots Qemu With The Right Command Or Something That Compares To A Bootable Tinycore Program

Thanks, Open To Better Newer Ideas , And Anything Helps

gold finger was kind enough to share this with me a while ago:

Quote:
Do backups to either another HDD, partition, or a USB stick (if big enough to hold your data). Can use program to make an initial backup of /home/gregory; then use it to periodically update that backup by having it sync between your installed Xubuntu /home/gregory and the backup copy. The sync function will just copy over things that are new or changed, rather than copying everything all over again.

Assuming your Xubuntu filesystem is Ext4, example of doing initial backup would be something like this:

* Spare USB with large partition formatted as Ext4 and labeled "BACKUPS"
* Open luckybackup and choose "Backup" function
* "Source" = /home/gregory
* "Destination" = /media/gregory/BACKUPS (might be under /media/BACKUPS)
* Check box to not create new directories (it will just do exact copy of source)


After initial backup, either make a new task for syncing, or modify the backup task to turn it into a syncing task instead. Then use that periodically to update the backed-up /home/gregory.
I've downloaded Luckybackup and have been experimenting with it but I'm still not sure the best way to go about using it as a backup. Like in gold finger's advice, why would I check the box to not create new directories? It seems to me doing it without checking the box re-creates things just the way they are on my computer. When I check the box it just takes everything out of the folders. Seems confusing (and unnecessasry). And I have a really hard time finding the errors after a run and when I do find them I do I don't know what they mean. And so if I backup the source destination it makes an exact copy on my destination drive (with folders if I don't check the box, without if I do). Then if I do that as an ongoing thing, I will be backing up all my data with each run (which I'm assuming would be much more time consuming), whereas if I choose 'syncrhonize source and destination' it will only backup the changes in my source and usb drive (which would be my destination drive)?

Is that the idea?

And I noticed that Lucky did not want to transfer things with colons in them. Googling around somebody said that problem would be taken care of by switching to ext 3 or ext 4 for formatting the destination drive (as gold finger suggested). Is this a good idea? (I've always felt comfortabel with FAT because if I needed to plug my flash drive into Microsoft it would work (as well as with Linux).)

So the first time I use Lucky I choose "backup source inside destination" and of course the source and destination. Should I check the "Do NOT create extra directory" box? (Again, that seems off as 95% of what I'll be backing up is in folders.)

Then after I've done that, I choose the snyc option?

A lot of stuff. I know. Thanks.

PS. As a slight complication I have the data (basically the "home" folder) of my two computers (work and home) synced via Copy.com.

i recently installed mint 17.1, i dislike it as i was a windows user :/ could someone help me get back to windows please. i did not dual boot, ive tried deleteing partitions but failed. pure newbie here no experience with linux. im not really stupid though, but if someone could do a step by step instruction it would help massively. THANK YOU !!!

I have a problem on the paper feed side and I need to partially dismantle the machine to fix it.....does anyone have step by step instructions on dismantling the machine from the top down? I'm told it's fairly easy but all hidden screws and clips - where are they all? Any help will be greatly appreciated. many thanks.

I am able to view my tv@nywhere card with tv time, but when I tried to record with VLC media player I couldn't switch to the proper source. How can I switch the source or what other program can I use with knoppix 7.4. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanx
Alsparko

Hello, I have a system that uses a compact flash with a windows os and some other files on it, also somewhere is some sort of encrypted licensing information. I have several of these machines and can use the cf from the others just fine in this machine. But when I take one of those cards and try to copy it with dd, somehow the machine can tell the difference. It's nothing illegal, it's just too old to buy the replacement. Someone has told me they copied successfully in linux with the dd command, but mine aren't working. I also can't tell the brand or type of cf since all the labels have been removed. All i know is that it's a 256mb card. So is there any other options besides dd, or is there a deeper level of dd that i can use to copy this info. I'm using something like:

sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=/home/folder/cfcard

then to copy from my hard drive to the blank cf:

sudo dd if=/home/folder/cfcard of=/dev/sde

I'm using a usb cf reader, and when i have my finished cf everything looks good. Even the machine can read it, it just gives me an error that the cf card isn't a licensed or corrupted.

I'm looking for a distraction-free environment to write down study notes (darn ADHD!), and my penmanship is terrible (and can't be searched).

I have an old HP laptop that can boot from USB, and an old thumb drive.

Ideally, I'd like...
- Fast boot
- Boot right into text editor (can be command line editor)
- Save out (back onto USB drive or HDD, accessible by Windows to copy over into evernote for later)

I'm not a total idiot, but am a linux noobie, so any instructions would be helpful.

I appreciate your time! Thank you!